by Sandy | Nov 14, 2013 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
The Museum of Modern Art’s American Modern: Hopper to O’Keeffe showcases inhouse pieces. Included are works by George Bellows, Stuart Davis, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles Sheeler, Alfred Stieglitz, and Andrew Wyeth.
“Drawn from MoMA’s collection, American Modern takes a fresh look at the Museum’s holdings of American art made between 1915 and 1950, and considers the cultural preoccupations of a rapidly changing American society in the first half of the 20th century. Including paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and sculptures, American Modern brings together some of the Museum’s most celebrated masterworks, contextualizing them across mediums and amid lesser-seen but revelatory works by artists who expressed compelling emotional and visual tendencies of the time.”
American Modern: Hopper to O’Keeffe
Until January 26, 2014
The Museum of Modern Art / MoMA
11 West 53 Street, New York, NY
(Image: Edward Hopper. “House by the Railroad” 1925)
by Sandy | Oct 28, 2013 | Art, Blogroll, Culture, Exhibits, Museums
Living in California for the last few years has brought to my attention certain holidays that frankly I didn’t really notice while living in NYC. One of the most popular is “Dia de los Muertos” (Day of the Dead). Posters, event notices, etc are often adorned with beautifully rendered and stylized skulls or skeletons to acknowledge the sentiments of the occasion. The influence of most of the images came from the work of Mexican artist José Guadalupe Posada, (1852 – 1913).
The Museum of Fine Arts offers a presentation that “commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of José Guadalupe Posada (1852–1913), considered the father of Mexican printmaking. Calaveras Mexicanas: The Art and Influence of José Guadalupe Posada showcases a group of approximately 50 of the artist’s prints that explore the continuing resonance of his work.”…” The exhibition also features the work of artists who were inspired by Posada, such as Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Graciela Iturbide, Luis Jiménez, and Earl Staley.“
Calaveras Mexicanas: The Art and Influence of José Guadalupe Posada
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1001 Bissonnet St, Houston, TX
by Sandy | Oct 10, 2013 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Museums
The Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition, Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926–1938… “is the first to focus exclusively on the breakthrough Surrealist years of René Magritte, creator of some of the 20th century’s most extraordinary images. Beginning in 1926, when Magritte first aimed to create paintings that would, in his words, “challenge the real world,” and concluding in 1938—a historically and biographically significant moment just prior to the outbreak of World War II—the exhibition traces central strategies and themes from the most inventive and experimental period in the artist’s prolific career. “
Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926–1938
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
by Sandy | Oct 6, 2013 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
I love cats. Grew up with them in my home – they’re so independent and often funny. (Yes, I am one of the millions of people that watch those cat videos online:) The Brooklyn Museum’s latest exhibition may not have them live, but the cats on view are beautiful.
“From domesticated cats to mythic symbols of divinity, felines played an important role in ancient Egyptian imagery for thousands of years. Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient Egypt explores the role of cats, lions, and other feline creatures in Egyptian mythology, kingship, and everyday life through nearly thirty different representations of cats from our world-famous Egyptian collection. Likely first domesticated in ancient Egypt, cats were revered for their fertility, associated with royalty and a number of deities, and valued for their ability to protect homes and granaries from vermin.“
Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient Egypt
Brooklyn Museum, 5th Flr, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York
by Sandy | Sep 10, 2013 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Events, Exhibits, Museums
San Francisco’s Legion of Honor museum presents Impressionists on the Water. On view are a large assortment of paintings “that explores the significant role sailing played in the lives of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists.” 
“Experience the artistic side of nautical life through more than 80 remarkable paintings and works on paper by Impressionists such as Monet, Caillebotte, Renoir, and Pissarro and Post-Impressionists such as Denis and Signac—artists whose breathtaking artistry reflects their own deep understanding and engagement with pleasure boating and competition”
Impressionists on the Water
Until October 13, 2013
Legion of Honor – Lincoln Park
34th Avenue & Clement Street, San Francisco, CA
by Sandy | Sep 6, 2013 | Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Culture, Live Performance
Mr. Wilson is one of my favorite playwrights. He wrote plays for every decade of the 20th century that would chronicle some part of the black experience in America. Through the use of his great ear for dialogue, Wilson was able to give us some insight into the daily life, both struggles and triumphs, of an assortment of universal characters that his audience could easily recognize. In 2005, August Wilson completed a ten-play cycle that is now being recorded to be enjoyed by future generations.
Tickets are sold out for just about all the live performances at the tiny Greene Space Theatre in NYC, however, the plays can be viewed online via webcast. I thoroughly enjoyed “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” a few days ago. True, the actors sit in seats in front of microphones, but they were so good and August Wilson’s stories are so compelling, that the imagination kicks in and provides the scenery and action. (For those of you not old enough to remember, we did this during radio programs all the time back in the day:)
“The Piano Lesson” is next on Monday 9/9/13 at 7PM EDT. The Greene Space site has a calendar of events, actor lists, etc.
August Wilson’s American Century Cycle
The Greene Space, 44 Charlton Street, New York, NY
BTW – the recordings are done in the order that the plays were written, not in chronological order as listed above
The Museum of Modern Art’s American Modern: Hopper to O’Keeffe showcases inhouse pieces. Included are works by George Bellows, Stuart Davis, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles Sheeler, Alfred Stieglitz, and Andrew Wyeth.
